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L. SGHOOLHOUSE. RIBBON DISPLAY CABINET.

No. 528,035. Patentedot. 23,1894.

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RIBBON DISPLAY-cAmNET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 528,035, dated October 23, 1894.. Application filed April 20, 1894. Serial No. 508.280. (No model.)

.To LZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LEwIs ScHooLHoUsE, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Ribbon Display-Cabinet, of which the following isa full, clear, and exact description.

The object of the inventionis to provide a new and improved ribbon display cabinet, which .is simple and durable in construction, and arranged to conveniently support a large number of rolls of ribbon and display their size and color to great advantage.

The invention consists of certain parts and details, and combinations ofthe same, as will be hereinafter described and then pointed out in the claims.

Reference isto be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters ot' reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 isa front elevation of the improvement with one of the drawers partly drawn out. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a transverse section of the same on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is asectional plan View of the same on the line 1t-4t of Fig.. 2, and with drawers pulled partly out; and Fig. 5 is a sectional front elevation of the improvement.

The improved display cabinet is provided with a casing A, made of suitable material and size, and provided with a base A', from which extends upwardly and rearwardly the solid back A2, and the open front A3 covered by a pane of glass A4, or other suitable transparent or translucent material. The casing A is also provided with the open sides A5 and A5, in which are tted to slide longitudinally the drawers B, set on edge and having an open face presented to the front of the casing and also provided with a translucent front B', iiush with the sides A5 and A5 of the casing, whenever the drawers are in their innermost or closed position. The casingAis also provided with a solid top A7, and with a horizontalipar-` tition A8, and a transverse partition A9, dividing the interior of the casing into four compartments, each of which contains a series of drawers B.

It is understood that I do not -limit myself to the number of horizontal partitions as the same may be increased for larger cabinets or the partitions may be omitted for smaller cabi` nets having but two compartments for two sets of drawers B. The drawers are adapted to support the rolls of ribbon and each drawer preferably supports the same colored ribbons of dierent width. y

Now, it will be seen that the first or front drawers B display the ribbons through the pane of glass A4, while the goods in the remaining boxes are visible from the sides of the casing through the transparent or trans` lucent fronts B of the said drawers. Each drawer B is provided with a guideway formed of a single piece of wire D, made preferably in U-form so as to extend with its sides over the "top and bottom of the drawer and with its middle portion over the front B', as plainly illustrated in the drawings with special reference to Figs. 1 and 5.

The inner ends of the wire D are bent over and clinched into the in nerside of the drawer, as plainly shown in Fig. 5, to securely hold the wire in place approximately at the middle of the drawer. The middle portion of the wire is preferably formed with a loop serving as a handle D', toconveniently pull the dl rawer out or push it in as the case may require. The

upper portion of the. wire D is formed near its end with a hump D2, adapted to abut against the respective side A5 or A5, to limit the outward sliding motion of the corresponding drawer. See Fig. 5. The upper and lower portions of the wire D are fitted to slide in guideways E secured to the under side of the top A7, the top and bottom of the horizontal partition Aa and the upper side of the base A', as

closes the, drawer, and as the transparent fronts B of the drawers lit snugly in the sides of the casing A, the latter is rendered. dustproof and consequently the rolls of ribbon do plainly shown in Fig. 3, it being understood p tis IOO

notl deteriorate in quality. The casing and drawer are made slantin g rearwardly as shown and described, so that the rolls of ribbon are readily retained within the drawers when the latter are run in or out, and at the same time the rolls can be readily placed in the drawer in filling the cabinet.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. A ribbon display cabinet, provided with a drawer having a transparent front, and a wire projecting from the drawer to form a guide therefor, said wire being bent over the front, top and bottom of the said drawer, the said wire being provided with a hump to limit LEVIS SCHOOLHOUSE.

Witnesses:

GEO. MAYER, ARTHUR F. WHEATLEY. 

